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by wisty 7y ago
How robust is this? Remember that time when Clinton and Trump's debates were reenacted by gender-swapped actors? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/clinton-trum... > “When a woman sa
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by wisty 7y ago
Logical fallacies don't have to be directly stated (unless you're talking to people who can think like adults). You can simply use them as a shortcut to strategies that are likely to work. If someone is making a slippery slope arg
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by wisty 7y ago
Baguettes are not really healthier than chips. The same can be said for sushi (well sushi got some other stuff that's good for you, but let's just think weight loss). They're mostly just carbs. If Americans had sushi and bagu
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by wisty 7y ago
It seems like children are 10 times less likely to get it, though that's very rubbery numbers (based on children being 2% of cases in China despite being about 20% of the population, not that I really trust the numbers are accurate). A
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by wisty 7y ago
7 times is quite a lot more. That's like saying a Porsche is a bit more than a Toyota.
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by wisty 7y ago
I believe there have been Presidents who decided to ignore the wishes of a bunch of voters who they don't agree with.
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by wisty 7y ago
I will assume the worst in a manager if they haven't gone out of their way to disprove the notion. They have both the authority and hopefully the management / people skills to be the one to stick their neck out and say "Hey,
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by wisty 7y ago
I think this essay is missing a discussion on the theories of what make university graduates better paid. The two main theories are: 1. Human capital. People learn stuff at university which makes them more valuable workers. 2. Credentialism
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by wisty 7y ago
A lot of people are skeptics of "anti-racism" and "feminism". Not everyone thinks that racism is causing black people to be poor (IMO a lot of current anti-racists are like people who see a snake-bite victim, and start s
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by wisty 7y ago
People could more safely play on their phones while 'driving'.
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by wisty 7y ago
As Wikipedia notes, this is kind of just a myth - http://hackeducation.com/2015/04/25/factory-model
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by wisty 7y ago
I'm no fan of Vice, but newspapers are understood to have different sections, and different sections have different standards. As long as the science section is OK, then it's fine (for a newspaper).
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by wisty 7y ago
China is rapidly developing. A lot of Chinese people would LOVE to see a move towards a lot of what Japan has, they just haven't been able to implement it yet (because of historical reasons that left the country screwed up).
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by wisty 7y ago
If you steal even a few dollars of merchandise from a corner store, the police can hold you for a number of days without trial. And most people won't feel sorry because that's what happens to thieves, so you should have known not
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by wisty 7y ago
There was a ban on unnatural hair colours. A foreign student was told to dye her hair black.
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by wisty 7y ago
The opportunity cost would be better targeted and more thoughtful posts in verticals, "startup" is kinda a demographic but it's not always a great target market.
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by wisty 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaxxun
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by wisty 7y ago
> Put smart people in a hypercompetitive environment and they will quickly identify the traits that are being rewarded and optimize for those. Or you select for hypercompetitive people who don't mind bending the rules. Smart people
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by wisty 7y ago
How many employees should a search and recommendation engine have?
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by wisty 7y ago
Most managers don't want an employee who will be best for the company, they want an employee who will be best for the manager. Easy to get along with, not too likely to cause extra work, etc.
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by wisty 7y ago
I wonder if there's some social constraints that babies naturally seem to rebel against (or at least be less interested in). Cooks used to be mostly women, now they're mostly men. Accountants used to be mostly men, now they'r
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by wisty 7y ago
IIR I think it's a VM(?) that has certain limits, and because of those limits it's OK to run it in kernel-space. IIRC it's not Turning complete, and has a fixed run time. So Linux can just say "OK run this now" and
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by wisty 7y ago
1984 was basically a sci-fi adaption of Koestler's Darkness at Noon, which was based on the real-life Moscow Trials. Orwell had read (and favourable reviewed) Darkness. He also used a lot of similar details (Rubashov even had a tooth-a
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by wisty 7y ago
> Goodheart's Law A man of culture! I think we can call in the Pareto Principle here. After a certain point, assertiveness / aggressiveness becomes zero-sum (or worse). But getting to the point where everyone worth listening to
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by wisty 7y ago
In Chinese culture, there's a big thing about your true friends being the ones who will tell you when you're wrong. A coworker, on the other hand, is not your responsibility, it's their life they're screwing up. Of cours
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by wisty 7y ago
If you do it right it will be labeled "assertion" not aggression.
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by wisty 7y ago
So is a polite legal threat assertive or aggressive? edit: I'm saying - where you draw the line is about things like whether it's competent, and whether it's "OK" within the contex. A polite "excuse me" is
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by wisty 7y ago
It's not just "overcorrect" it's also doing so in an incompetent way. It's like asking out someone on a date. If you have less experience, you'll probably do so in a dumb way and are more likely to seem like yo
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by wisty 7y ago
Why are social skills always focusing on the positive? A lot of programmers often seem to be more nice guys than anything else, and need to be able to be more assertive / aggressive. Everyone tries to distinguish these two, it's m
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by wisty 7y ago
I've seen a HN poster promote filestash.app which looks like it's either self-host or hosted. I guess you might have to add in something like Spideroak, Backblaze, or tarsnap if you want to self host + backup. Or Syncthing as othe

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